Here is where we'll post notes from class each week:
June 29, 2009
Name
Where you are in the Pratt Program
What you want to learn in the class
What you can bring to high school students?
YA Lit stuff
Tweens--step in for teen librarian--how to make teens think you're cool
Get back into the swing of YA
High school
13 y.o. brother--what do they read?
Books they're reading
Reflection on what's come out
YA lit
Bad YA lit
Intrigued by teens--how you can relate to them
Best song you've heard in the last 2 weeks
A Well Respected Man--Kinks
Whiter Shade of Pale--Procol Harum
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory.
Pansy Division
Adele--Right is Ready
Sukhwinder Singh - Chaiyya Chaiyya
Bill Callaghan
Tori Amos
I'm Yours--Jason Mraz
MJ--Dirty Diana
Sunny--Morrissey
Phoenix--1901
Decemberists--Youth and Beauty Brigade
Crash--Paul van Dyke
Black and White--MJ
Billie Jean-MJ X2
Andrew Bird--Anonanimal
Fujiya & Miyagi (the whole album, Transparent Things is good)
Part Time Indian
Maybe not more boys than girls? He's an Everyman
Low income, low expectations==
Humor
Find an entry point
Good pics drawn by a woman
Girls are more open to reading about things they don't identify with right off the bat
social justice
multi cultural
outsider
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Curius Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Freak Show
Gregor the Overlander
Tyrell
Percy Jackson
Twlight:
If you like twilight, you'll like this
teenage girl love story
forbidden love story
ordinary girl/extraordinary circumstances
sparkles
everything real life except for him
visceral--physical response to crush/love/etc
dangerous
outsider
they saw bella differently than she saw herself
small town thing
July 1, 2009
YA Collections:
Assignment books—classics (separate peace , catcher, etc, xxx
Books published for YA—Fit for YA market—12 & Up, sometimes 14 & up xxxxxxx
Graphic novels & Manga xxxxxx
Superhero
Series—garth nix, eragon, james patterson, Darren shan, jk, gossip girl, xx
Urban fiction, street lit, triple crown, big pub houses have street lit x imprints (indie bands selling out?!?!)
Magazines (many are now online only)
Study guides, cliffsnotes, etc.xx
Point counterpoint
Audiobooks/playaways
DVDs (tv shows, anime, movies)xx
Video games
Cds
Computers and laptops xxxxxx
Seating xxx
Adult books—some interfile, some in both places
Labels
Movitational posters
e-resources xxx
non-fiction xxxxx
YA Lit History:
Bible—everyone read the bible
19C—Dickens/Brontes
teenagers were adults in 19C-kid in a coalmine or a young mother
Little Women
Treasure Island
Anne of Green Gables
Little House
Rudyard Kipling
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/
Betsy Tacy
Trixie Belden
Archie Comics
Cherry Ames: Student Nurse
Beverly Cleary
Judy Blume
Catcher In the Rye
Pigman—Zindel
Seventeenth Summer
SE Hinton
Sweet Valley High
Mr & Mrs Bo Jo Jones
Go Ask Alice
Kurt Vonnegut
EL Konigsburg
Robert Cormier—Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Ray Bradbury
ME Kerr
Lois Duncan
Lois Lowry
VC Andrews
RL Stine
Stephen King
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred Taylor
Go Ask Alice
Julius Lester
Rosa Guy
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Christopher Pike
Anne Martin
Sweet Dreams
Lurlene Mc Daniel
Franice Pascal
Francesca Lia Block—Weetzie Bat
Brett Easton Ellis
Robert Lipsyte
Cynthia Voigt
Katherine Patterson
Susan Cooper
Madleine L’Engle
Ursula LeGuin
Mary Stuart
Douglas Adams
Robin McKinley
Diana Wynne Jones
Avi
Tamora Pierce\
Sharon Draper
Chris Crutcher
Charles de Lint
Patricia C. Wrede
Jerry Spinelli
JK Rowling
Jackie Woodson
Gordan Korman
Terry Pratchett
James Patterson
Anne Brashares
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Gary Paulsen
Neil Gaiman
Sarah Dessen
Kwan
Meg Cabot
Darren Shan
E Lockhart
Scott Westerfeld
Ellen Wittlinger
Garret Freymann Weyr
Lauire HalseAnderson
Mt Anderson
Patricia McCormick
Louise Rennison
Carolyn Mackler
Caroline B Cooney
Jay Asher
Cecily Von Z
John Green
Anthony Horowitz
David Levithan
Angela Johnson
Jane Yolen
Sharon Flake
Stephenie Meyer
Nancy Farmer
Julia Alvarez
Maureen Johnson
Cassandra Claire
Markus Zusak
Holly Black
Rachel Cohn
Lauren Myracle
Marc Aronson
Melissa Marr
Melissa de la Cruz
Garth Nix
Street Lit:
Kwan
Terry Woods
Zane
Kashamba Williams
Treasure Hernandez
Noire
Iceberg Slim
Push
Kids are not getting Catcher in the Rye
Freak Show
Liked it—funny, over the top, Once plot got rolling was well constructed; hard to get into—annoying at first, voice, the ending, good ending
Didn’t like it: hard to read, skipped pages, rants obnoxious, hard to keep track of, pop culture refs, mature side of pop culture, pretentious, shake Billy, couldn’t get into it, bad reviews from other people, who is this author?
Billy was just being himself
Couldn’t express himself outside of himself
Who reads it?
Sandy would kill for it—LGBTQ kids, plot won me over, outfits,
Shadow kids—Blah Blah Blah
Inner turmoil of the football player
Flossie
Positive family relationship
Give it to a reading challenge
Kids who feel like outsiders—new kids in town, kids who go to prep schools who are outsiders of the prep school cultures
Kids who don’t fit in
Kids who like funny books/sense of humor
Would pair with: levithan, twilight, fashion books,
Altar Ego
Make themselves over
Stereotype of the gamer
Can be read lots of different ways
Body image---huge realization for teens
Women play as men so they don’t get hit on—strong, independence
Pictures, cover
Talks in tech speak—book speaks gamer language
Who would read: gamers, kidn of book that needs to be left of the table
Would give to art students, outcasts
Would pair with dramacon, cosplay, boy proof, fantasy
Bananafish
Hard to read
Hard to follow plot—vietnam
Not well written or drawn—look the same
Stereotypical artwork—too many degrees of separation
Give to guys—homosexuality
Booktalking
July 6, 2009
Feeling of camaraderie between close friends—friendship
Playing in the pit orchestra of OK
Learning how to pump gas from cute boy
First kiss (boy or girl)
Independence—not having to sit through a crap class
Arrested for being at a party—parents fought for her—learned when its okay to question authority
Safe zone for weird kids—parents would lie
Bad teacher—changed majors—making decisions about future
Revels in brother’s fallen grace
National honor’s society—enjoyed your purple hair awesomeness/awareness
Found friends outside of normal peer group—form friends around interests instead of scholastics—
Achieved the course—motivated others to complete the course—made student council representative
Helping a friend
Had a cool dad who picked friends up from Rocky Horror
Ditched by friends—made a new friend
Storytelling festival—first internship in a public library—chain of events that led to a career
FB vs Myspace
FB was for college
Myspace—music
Myspace—seedy and gross?
Can listen to music
Bar for entry to myspace is lower than FB
Hispanic kids don’t use FB?
Myspace now has feed
Cancelled myspace acct—
Girls have pics of themselves
Ban myspace in childrens room?
Use myspace just for music
Creating a supercool persona for themselves
Created categories of friends
Authentic you may not be what you want the rest of the world to see
Alice Hoffman
Only friend people who you want to know
Don’t use full name
Make things friends only
Ask yourself “will a job interviewer want to read this?”
Helps work friendships—lets people at work know who you are
Personal info can be beneficial to work life
Risk to put yourself out there—almost no different from real life
Can hide people on FB
Beware of what you put into email
No real contact information
Generation of teens now who are leaving high school—big presence on Internet
Media literacy
Living Dead Girl
Horrible circumstances
Gratuitious
Evocative
Intense
Very negative
Always people who will read those books
It is appropriate
Do teen books have to have hope? Scared straight
Like law and order SVU
Adult world can’t save youu
Before I die
Go Ask Alice
Messenger
Giver
Ptolemy’s gate
Separate Peace
Tears of a tiger
Romeo and Julie
No hope
Freewill
Who would you give it to?
Kids who want to see something worse than what they live?
A trigger?
Kids who like dark books
Embrace their experiences
Would pair with:
Hard Candy
Before I die
The Missing Girl
Sold
Body of Christopher Creed
Ellen Hopkins
Water
Wintergirls
Speak
Burn Journals
You Know Where to Find Me
Missing Abby
Girl, INterrupted
Feather Laura Kaschiscke
Lovely Bones
Oscar Wao
Lucky
Mysterious Skin
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Road
If I Stay
I loved it
Best parents, best BF, best everything
Treasure your life
Warm and cozy
Sadder for people who were left alive
Cathartic
Popular with adult women
Characters are so unflawed
Feels like an outsider
Relieved to have the parents die
Who would read:
Girls who like to cry
Musicians
Romance—destiny/soulmate
Teens with “adult relatonship”
Adults
Coming from a dysfunctional family—aspire to have this family
Would pair with:
Living Dead Girl
Neverwhere
Graveyard Book
Lovely Bones
Sarah Dessen Books
Say Goodnight Gracie
Thirteen Reasons Why
Flight
Frankie Landau Banks
Didn’t like main character
Loved the main character
Sister is a feminist
All politics
Didn’t like 3rd person narrative
Narrator is affective of boarding school
Banter between guys
Going there for the education/not connections
Loved everything but the end—seemed to be a different person
But could be the ultimate infiltration
More to gain by playing their game instead of quitting
Vague ending
Would give to:
Private school kids
Not into rich white people
Fans of Private
Challenging
Boys who resent boys clubs
Geek squad celebrity
Body conscious
Dream of geeky girl getting popular boys
John Green Fans
Mystery/intrigue
Would pair with:
John Green
Jellicoe Road
Wessex Papers
London Eye Mystery
Mean Girls
Freak Show
Heathers
Gilmore Girls
Dawsons Creek
Wodehouse
Panopticon—Foucault
Secret Society stuff
Dead Poet Society
The Liar
Secret History
Old School Book
I Am Charlotte History
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Girl Overboard
July 8, 2009
MSCL:
Parents support—are passive aggressive; seem concerned that they don’t understand her
Expectations about teenagers—
Newer friends support more than old
Everyone in high school has a friend their parents don’t approve of
She’s not part of anything in the background
Yearbrook group---cutting off old support
Relationship doesn’t seem particularly anything—dad seemed lost
Mother is very sarcastic
Typical little sister
Raynne—unstable; seems not to care what anyone thinks; has more fun
Angela n eeds someone to help her push the envelope
Hair is holding her back
Social competencies—making judgement calls
Not satisfied with reality
Doesn’t have positive identity
Experimenting—feels free enough to get out of yearbook
Body language
Challenging
Superbad
friends, mom
Bullies—not really support
Clear that they love each other—
Verbal communication is limited—not talking about feelings—secret code communication—afraid of saying something that might not sound cool—
Taboo to talk about feelings
Takes the entire movie for them to verbalize their feelings for one another…and then they snuggle
Talk like the boys in Order of the Bassett Hounds
Pretend to be touch either when they’re being nice
Characters in John Green
OK in library; issues with the content
Ask “would they talk like that in front of their siblings”
Ok for them to whisper
Address appropriateness of it in the space, not the appropriateness of the speech
Make them aware of it—let them know they may not be able to talk like that in the library
“I’m so glad you’re in love, but I need for you to be in love somewhere else.”
Code switching—using the appropriate language in the appropriate place
Give them a level of responsibility to do the right thing
Seth more devoted to Evan than Evan is to Seth
Evan defends the girl; takes higher more sophisiticated kid
Want to get attention
If you’re telling the jokes, they’re less likey to be made at you
Shut up in front of the mean guy
Wrote it as kids
Positive identity—seth is comfortable with himself? A cover up?
He cries like a baby
Seth bullies McLovin
Evan is comfortable until he talks to a girl
David Sedaris
John Green
Virgin Sex for Boys
Wintergirls
Well written
Not talking down to teens
Like a problem novel—
Magical realism, but not
Felt disoriented, hallucinated
Have to be careful of who you give the book to—incredibly triggering
Horror could be intriguing
I jight do this but I’m in better congrol
Good book for friends and family—they can know why
Kids are aware that suicide exists—
Rawer
Wrenching—at emotional extremes—head over heels in love
Teens absorb messages easier
Looking for things they can identify with
Community of anorexic girls
Extra layer of interpreting—crossed out words
Adds to the tension
Entertaining
Can’tr always decide that what someone likes is who they are
Many kids want to experience something they aren’t
Mother attempts to support her—but is too busy
Mom knew she needed to be monitored
13 Reasons Why:
Had a lot of support
Boy in story, parents, friends in school,
Started off as a snotty it girl
Leaves notes but no one sees them
Tony was biggest support for the main character
Paper Towns
Would read Wintergirls with:
Everything we read on Monday
Skin by Vrettos
Guys on drugs
Raiders knight—lipsyte
Cut patty mccormick
Body Drama—photography
Post Secret
Non-fiction
Online resources about body image—flickr project—submit photos and height and weight
Thin—Lauren Greenwald
Staying Fat for Sarah Burns
AM Jenkins—Damage
13 Reasons Why:
Paper Towns
Mysteries
Love Story
Sweethearts by Sarah Zarr
Virgin Suicides
As Simple as Snow
Suicide
The Earth My Butt and Other Big Things
Inexcuseable
What Happened to Lani Garver
Would give to:
Teen girls
Wide appeal
Twisty plot
Love story
Depressing
Narrators of both genders
Read in Christian schools
Mild read
Universally relateable
Misinterpretations of what happened
I love you but you’re dead ☹(
Zombie Love Story
Generation Dead
Forest of hands and Teeth
Class Notes July 15, 2009
Groups:
Little Brother
Support—from mom, teacher
Social engagement
Commitment to learning
Motivation
Civic values
Creative activities
Equity and social justice
Reading for pleasure
Techies
Rebgels
Troublemakers
Nerds
Gamers
Passionate kids
Politically involved kids
Kids in san Francisco
Urban kids
Sci fi fans
Fans of the dystopic novel
Rpgers
Args
Frankie landau banks
Alter ego
1984
brave new world
patriot act
constitution
ny times
internet gaming
great curriculum connection
faherenheit 451
feed
hunger games
9/11 gn
v for vendetta
uglies
persepolis
how to hack
don’t trust under 25
build your own computer
tied to collection
super cheap
useful/could gt own computer
understand freeware
3-4 sessions
recycle/green program
$2000.00
skulls
constructive use of time
commitment to learning
achievement motivation
creativity
reading for pleasure
social engagment/civics
reluctant readers
artistic types/crafters
goth/rock stuff
skull types
street art/graffiti
all ages
craft books—subervisive sewing
stitch and bitch
generation t
hip craft books
alt art
day of the dead
other books based on websites
kittenwar
stuff on my cat
twilight
ghostgirl
generation dead
bliss
crafts!!!
Work with what you have
Long term program
Make skulls
Make something else smiley faces
Another image—replicate over time, host exhibition
Host author
Collect garbage—scrap stuff, paper,
The eternal smile
Lack of assets
Looking for escape from their reality because they have no assets
Characterized by lack of assets
Achievement motivation
Family support
Equity and social justice
Responsibility
Honesty
Resistance
Kids who like GNs
Rrs
Boys and girls
Choose different stories to read—variety of reading and age levels
Religious cults
Smart kids
Artistic kids
Wide readership—different genres—so pretty, more highbrow
Still entertaining without understanding all the levels
Rich material for discussion
Local gn creator—4 week program
Use comic life
Graphic novels
Matrix
Truman show
Ducktails
Fantasy
Little brother
Fire and hemlock
Golden compass, etc
Hugo cabret
unLondon
coralline
Pleasantville
Ricca—sex—safe and unsafe
Lauren—abortion
Leslie—biracial
Body image—laura
Teen depression—(body drama)
Regan—breaking up
Jill—punk rock
Sandy—military—joining
Emma—girl power
Nina—wonderlands
Dead pidgen—drug and alcohol abuse
Susan song—
God/existence
Claire—non-american—kids with parents who aren’t American
July 27, 2009
teens don't read or buy magazines unless they're lying around
boys--sports
unwilling to read outside topical comfort zone
no interest in GNs or manga
boys like ogden nash and billy collins
library bad==kids steal books
rant over how much no one uses school library in middle and high school
school librarires are great hang out spots but no one really uses them
hard for teens to think of library as a place to come to a program
if you don't like the staff; you're not going to use the library probably
brooklyn teen volunteers at mulberry st branch
jodi picoult
child called it
tuesdays with morrie
asmimov
girls like meg cabot and zombie books
zeroed in on Tyrell and Kendra
harry potter
hsm3 haters!
teens are better sequencers than us
deathnote:
would read:
manga kids
boys
goth kids
appearance based on pictures of demons
sci fi fantasy
would pair with:
artemis fowl
amulet of samarkand
"morally bankrupt" characters
bananafish
telenovela on youtube
little brother
charlies angels movies
battle royale
no choirboy
body drama:
loved it
very candid
no nonsense
show you the worse cases so you feel better about yourself
asprin masks!
no one is going to read this straight through
read the parts that are interesting to you
too muich emphasis on BMI
doctors still use BMI
how to deal with these feelings--too hetero-normative
--maybe to keep it more technical--overly technical?
would read with
gert garibaldis rants and raves
boy toy
wintergirls
vagina monologues
kids letters to judy
earth my butt and other big round things
fix
uglies
gossip girl
twlight
north of beautiful
are you there god it's me margaret
forever
nobody's perfect
body project
its complicated
alter ego
looks
frankie landau banks
freak show
grace after midnight
america's next top model:
TYRA
not all one body type
love the drama
like the real world
cast of supporting characters
everybody finds somebody they can relate to...or they find someone they can hate
what not to read
creazy
deals with lots of teen issues
August 3, 2009
freedom to be inrellectual
right to receive info
ist amendment
bill of rights
libraries allow access to info that's been published
NYPL allows open access to all info after age 12
advertise and promote
keep records private
erase record once they return the book
patriot act allows gov't officials to see library records
keep extra copies to give away instead of checking out
having a clear selection policy
collection development policy: legalese description for how you select and how you proceed when there is a challenge
cultivate relationships with local authorities to garner suppport
helps to have a form for people to challenge
important to read entire work
important to let people complain
families/parents afraid of their children
find a way to engage challengers in a conversation
Banned Books Week
more of a parenting issue than a library issue
you don't have to agree with everything you read or recommend
No Choirboy:
for teens who ask for true stories
fans of true crime
fascination with prison
reluctant readers
short, chunked, high interest
pictures
readalike:
green mile
dead man walking
monster
grace after midnight
Death Chamber
jack gantos hole in my life
luc sante
juvenile
Weegee
trials of daryl hunt
drown
hunger games
bloods and crips: made in america
in cold blood
little brother
prison break
oz
the wire
antique bakery
straight girls
obsessees of Japanese culture
foodees
lots of great details in the desserts
fans of boxing
readalike:
bananafish
vegan cupcakes take over teh world
hello cupcake
play with your food book
like water for chocolate
sunshine
at home at the end of the world
boy meets boy
teh waitress
chocolat
True to the Game:
complex main character--comes across as a shallow golddigger--but
all about plot
great for reluctant readers
June 29, 2009
Name
Where you are in the Pratt Program
What you want to learn in the class
What you can bring to high school students?
YA Lit stuff
Tweens--step in for teen librarian--how to make teens think you're cool
Get back into the swing of YA
High school
13 y.o. brother--what do they read?
Books they're reading
Reflection on what's come out
YA lit
Bad YA lit
Intrigued by teens--how you can relate to them
Best song you've heard in the last 2 weeks
A Well Respected Man--Kinks
Whiter Shade of Pale--Procol Harum
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory.
Pansy Division
Adele--Right is Ready
Sukhwinder Singh - Chaiyya Chaiyya
Bill Callaghan
Tori Amos
I'm Yours--Jason Mraz
MJ--Dirty Diana
Sunny--Morrissey
Phoenix--1901
Decemberists--Youth and Beauty Brigade
Crash--Paul van Dyke
Black and White--MJ
Billie Jean-MJ X2
Andrew Bird--Anonanimal
Fujiya & Miyagi (the whole album, Transparent Things is good)
Part Time Indian
Maybe not more boys than girls? He's an Everyman
Low income, low expectations==
Humor
Find an entry point
Good pics drawn by a woman
Girls are more open to reading about things they don't identify with right off the bat
social justice
multi cultural
outsider
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Curius Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Freak Show
Gregor the Overlander
Tyrell
Percy Jackson
Twlight:
If you like twilight, you'll like this
teenage girl love story
forbidden love story
ordinary girl/extraordinary circumstances
sparkles
everything real life except for him
visceral--physical response to crush/love/etc
dangerous
outsider
they saw bella differently than she saw herself
small town thing
July 1, 2009
YA Collections:
Assignment books—classics (separate peace , catcher, etc, xxx
Books published for YA—Fit for YA market—12 & Up, sometimes 14 & up xxxxxxx
Graphic novels & Manga xxxxxx
Superhero
Series—garth nix, eragon, james patterson, Darren shan, jk, gossip girl, xx
Urban fiction, street lit, triple crown, big pub houses have street lit x imprints (indie bands selling out?!?!)
Magazines (many are now online only)
Study guides, cliffsnotes, etc.xx
Point counterpoint
Audiobooks/playaways
DVDs (tv shows, anime, movies)xx
Video games
Cds
Computers and laptops xxxxxx
Seating xxx
Adult books—some interfile, some in both places
Labels
Movitational posters
e-resources xxx
non-fiction xxxxx
YA Lit History:
Bible—everyone read the bible
19C—Dickens/Brontes
teenagers were adults in 19C-kid in a coalmine or a young mother
Little Women
Treasure Island
Anne of Green Gables
Little House
Rudyard Kipling
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/
Betsy Tacy
Trixie Belden
Archie Comics
Cherry Ames: Student Nurse
Beverly Cleary
Judy Blume
Catcher In the Rye
Pigman—Zindel
Seventeenth Summer
SE Hinton
Sweet Valley High
Mr & Mrs Bo Jo Jones
Go Ask Alice
Kurt Vonnegut
EL Konigsburg
Robert Cormier—Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Ray Bradbury
ME Kerr
Lois Duncan
Lois Lowry
VC Andrews
RL Stine
Stephen King
Walter Dean Myers
Mildred Taylor
Go Ask Alice
Julius Lester
Rosa Guy
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Christopher Pike
Anne Martin
Sweet Dreams
Lurlene Mc Daniel
Franice Pascal
Francesca Lia Block—Weetzie Bat
Brett Easton Ellis
Robert Lipsyte
Cynthia Voigt
Katherine Patterson
Susan Cooper
Madleine L’Engle
Ursula LeGuin
Mary Stuart
Douglas Adams
Robin McKinley
Diana Wynne Jones
Avi
Tamora Pierce\
Sharon Draper
Chris Crutcher
Charles de Lint
Patricia C. Wrede
Jerry Spinelli
JK Rowling
Jackie Woodson
Gordan Korman
Terry Pratchett
James Patterson
Anne Brashares
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Gary Paulsen
Neil Gaiman
Sarah Dessen
Kwan
Meg Cabot
Darren Shan
E Lockhart
Scott Westerfeld
Ellen Wittlinger
Garret Freymann Weyr
Lauire HalseAnderson
Mt Anderson
Patricia McCormick
Louise Rennison
Carolyn Mackler
Caroline B Cooney
Jay Asher
Cecily Von Z
John Green
Anthony Horowitz
David Levithan
Angela Johnson
Jane Yolen
Sharon Flake
Stephenie Meyer
Nancy Farmer
Julia Alvarez
Maureen Johnson
Cassandra Claire
Markus Zusak
Holly Black
Rachel Cohn
Lauren Myracle
Marc Aronson
Melissa Marr
Melissa de la Cruz
Garth Nix
Street Lit:
Kwan
Terry Woods
Zane
Kashamba Williams
Treasure Hernandez
Noire
Iceberg Slim
Push
Kids are not getting Catcher in the Rye
Freak Show
Liked it—funny, over the top, Once plot got rolling was well constructed; hard to get into—annoying at first, voice, the ending, good ending
Didn’t like it: hard to read, skipped pages, rants obnoxious, hard to keep track of, pop culture refs, mature side of pop culture, pretentious, shake Billy, couldn’t get into it, bad reviews from other people, who is this author?
Billy was just being himself
Couldn’t express himself outside of himself
Who reads it?
Sandy would kill for it—LGBTQ kids, plot won me over, outfits,
Shadow kids—Blah Blah Blah
Inner turmoil of the football player
Flossie
Positive family relationship
Give it to a reading challenge
Kids who feel like outsiders—new kids in town, kids who go to prep schools who are outsiders of the prep school cultures
Kids who don’t fit in
Kids who like funny books/sense of humor
Would pair with: levithan, twilight, fashion books,
Altar Ego
Make themselves over
Stereotype of the gamer
Can be read lots of different ways
Body image---huge realization for teens
Women play as men so they don’t get hit on—strong, independence
Pictures, cover
Talks in tech speak—book speaks gamer language
Who would read: gamers, kidn of book that needs to be left of the table
Would give to art students, outcasts
Would pair with dramacon, cosplay, boy proof, fantasy
Bananafish
Hard to read
Hard to follow plot—vietnam
Not well written or drawn—look the same
Stereotypical artwork—too many degrees of separation
Give to guys—homosexuality
Booktalking
July 6, 2009
Feeling of camaraderie between close friends—friendship
Playing in the pit orchestra of OK
Learning how to pump gas from cute boy
First kiss (boy or girl)
Independence—not having to sit through a crap class
Arrested for being at a party—parents fought for her—learned when its okay to question authority
Safe zone for weird kids—parents would lie
Bad teacher—changed majors—making decisions about future
Revels in brother’s fallen grace
National honor’s society—enjoyed your purple hair awesomeness/awareness
Found friends outside of normal peer group—form friends around interests instead of scholastics—
Achieved the course—motivated others to complete the course—made student council representative
Helping a friend
Had a cool dad who picked friends up from Rocky Horror
Ditched by friends—made a new friend
Storytelling festival—first internship in a public library—chain of events that led to a career
FB vs Myspace
FB was for college
Myspace—music
Myspace—seedy and gross?
Can listen to music
Bar for entry to myspace is lower than FB
Hispanic kids don’t use FB?
Myspace now has feed
Cancelled myspace acct—
Girls have pics of themselves
Ban myspace in childrens room?
Use myspace just for music
Creating a supercool persona for themselves
Created categories of friends
Authentic you may not be what you want the rest of the world to see
Alice Hoffman
Only friend people who you want to know
Don’t use full name
Make things friends only
Ask yourself “will a job interviewer want to read this?”
Helps work friendships—lets people at work know who you are
Personal info can be beneficial to work life
Risk to put yourself out there—almost no different from real life
Can hide people on FB
Beware of what you put into email
No real contact information
Generation of teens now who are leaving high school—big presence on Internet
Media literacy
Living Dead Girl
Horrible circumstances
Gratuitious
Evocative
Intense
Very negative
Always people who will read those books
It is appropriate
Do teen books have to have hope? Scared straight
Like law and order SVU
Adult world can’t save youu
Before I die
Go Ask Alice
Messenger
Giver
Ptolemy’s gate
Separate Peace
Tears of a tiger
Romeo and Julie
No hope
Freewill
Who would you give it to?
Kids who want to see something worse than what they live?
A trigger?
Kids who like dark books
Embrace their experiences
Would pair with:
Hard Candy
Before I die
The Missing Girl
Sold
Body of Christopher Creed
Ellen Hopkins
Water
Wintergirls
Speak
Burn Journals
You Know Where to Find Me
Missing Abby
Girl, INterrupted
Feather Laura Kaschiscke
Lovely Bones
Oscar Wao
Lucky
Mysterious Skin
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Road
If I Stay
I loved it
Best parents, best BF, best everything
Treasure your life
Warm and cozy
Sadder for people who were left alive
Cathartic
Popular with adult women
Characters are so unflawed
Feels like an outsider
Relieved to have the parents die
Who would read:
Girls who like to cry
Musicians
Romance—destiny/soulmate
Teens with “adult relatonship”
Adults
Coming from a dysfunctional family—aspire to have this family
Would pair with:
Living Dead Girl
Neverwhere
Graveyard Book
Lovely Bones
Sarah Dessen Books
Say Goodnight Gracie
Thirteen Reasons Why
Flight
Frankie Landau Banks
Didn’t like main character
Loved the main character
Sister is a feminist
All politics
Didn’t like 3rd person narrative
Narrator is affective of boarding school
Banter between guys
Going there for the education/not connections
Loved everything but the end—seemed to be a different person
But could be the ultimate infiltration
More to gain by playing their game instead of quitting
Vague ending
Would give to:
Private school kids
Not into rich white people
Fans of Private
Challenging
Boys who resent boys clubs
Geek squad celebrity
Body conscious
Dream of geeky girl getting popular boys
John Green Fans
Mystery/intrigue
Would pair with:
John Green
Jellicoe Road
Wessex Papers
London Eye Mystery
Mean Girls
Freak Show
Heathers
Gilmore Girls
Dawsons Creek
Wodehouse
Panopticon—Foucault
Secret Society stuff
Dead Poet Society
The Liar
Secret History
Old School Book
I Am Charlotte History
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Girl Overboard
July 8, 2009
MSCL:
Parents support—are passive aggressive; seem concerned that they don’t understand her
Expectations about teenagers—
Newer friends support more than old
Everyone in high school has a friend their parents don’t approve of
She’s not part of anything in the background
Yearbrook group---cutting off old support
Relationship doesn’t seem particularly anything—dad seemed lost
Mother is very sarcastic
Typical little sister
Raynne—unstable; seems not to care what anyone thinks; has more fun
Angela n eeds someone to help her push the envelope
Hair is holding her back
Social competencies—making judgement calls
Not satisfied with reality
Doesn’t have positive identity
Experimenting—feels free enough to get out of yearbook
Body language
Challenging
Superbad
friends, mom
Bullies—not really support
Clear that they love each other—
Verbal communication is limited—not talking about feelings—secret code communication—afraid of saying something that might not sound cool—
Taboo to talk about feelings
Takes the entire movie for them to verbalize their feelings for one another…and then they snuggle
Talk like the boys in Order of the Bassett Hounds
Pretend to be touch either when they’re being nice
Characters in John Green
OK in library; issues with the content
Ask “would they talk like that in front of their siblings”
Ok for them to whisper
Address appropriateness of it in the space, not the appropriateness of the speech
Make them aware of it—let them know they may not be able to talk like that in the library
“I’m so glad you’re in love, but I need for you to be in love somewhere else.”
Code switching—using the appropriate language in the appropriate place
Give them a level of responsibility to do the right thing
Seth more devoted to Evan than Evan is to Seth
Evan defends the girl; takes higher more sophisiticated kid
Want to get attention
If you’re telling the jokes, they’re less likey to be made at you
Shut up in front of the mean guy
Wrote it as kids
Positive identity—seth is comfortable with himself? A cover up?
He cries like a baby
Seth bullies McLovin
Evan is comfortable until he talks to a girl
David Sedaris
John Green
Virgin Sex for Boys
Wintergirls
Well written
Not talking down to teens
Like a problem novel—
Magical realism, but not
Felt disoriented, hallucinated
Have to be careful of who you give the book to—incredibly triggering
Horror could be intriguing
I jight do this but I’m in better congrol
Good book for friends and family—they can know why
Kids are aware that suicide exists—
Rawer
Wrenching—at emotional extremes—head over heels in love
Teens absorb messages easier
Looking for things they can identify with
Community of anorexic girls
Extra layer of interpreting—crossed out words
Adds to the tension
Entertaining
Can’tr always decide that what someone likes is who they are
Many kids want to experience something they aren’t
Mother attempts to support her—but is too busy
Mom knew she needed to be monitored
13 Reasons Why:
Had a lot of support
Boy in story, parents, friends in school,
Started off as a snotty it girl
Leaves notes but no one sees them
Tony was biggest support for the main character
Paper Towns
Would read Wintergirls with:
Everything we read on Monday
Skin by Vrettos
Guys on drugs
Raiders knight—lipsyte
Cut patty mccormick
Body Drama—photography
Post Secret
Non-fiction
Online resources about body image—flickr project—submit photos and height and weight
Thin—Lauren Greenwald
Staying Fat for Sarah Burns
AM Jenkins—Damage
13 Reasons Why:
Paper Towns
Mysteries
Love Story
Sweethearts by Sarah Zarr
Virgin Suicides
As Simple as Snow
Suicide
The Earth My Butt and Other Big Things
Inexcuseable
What Happened to Lani Garver
Would give to:
Teen girls
Wide appeal
Twisty plot
Love story
Depressing
Narrators of both genders
Read in Christian schools
Mild read
Universally relateable
Misinterpretations of what happened
I love you but you’re dead ☹(
Zombie Love Story
Generation Dead
Forest of hands and Teeth
Class Notes July 15, 2009
Groups:
Little Brother
Support—from mom, teacher
Social engagement
Commitment to learning
Motivation
Civic values
Creative activities
Equity and social justice
Reading for pleasure
Techies
Rebgels
Troublemakers
Nerds
Gamers
Passionate kids
Politically involved kids
Kids in san Francisco
Urban kids
Sci fi fans
Fans of the dystopic novel
Rpgers
Args
Frankie landau banks
Alter ego
1984
brave new world
patriot act
constitution
ny times
internet gaming
great curriculum connection
faherenheit 451
feed
hunger games
9/11 gn
v for vendetta
uglies
persepolis
how to hack
don’t trust under 25
build your own computer
tied to collection
super cheap
useful/could gt own computer
understand freeware
3-4 sessions
recycle/green program
$2000.00
skulls
constructive use of time
commitment to learning
achievement motivation
creativity
reading for pleasure
social engagment/civics
reluctant readers
artistic types/crafters
goth/rock stuff
skull types
street art/graffiti
all ages
craft books—subervisive sewing
stitch and bitch
generation t
hip craft books
alt art
day of the dead
other books based on websites
kittenwar
stuff on my cat
twilight
ghostgirl
generation dead
bliss
crafts!!!
Work with what you have
Long term program
Make skulls
Make something else smiley faces
Another image—replicate over time, host exhibition
Host author
Collect garbage—scrap stuff, paper,
The eternal smile
Lack of assets
Looking for escape from their reality because they have no assets
Characterized by lack of assets
Achievement motivation
Family support
Equity and social justice
Responsibility
Honesty
Resistance
Kids who like GNs
Rrs
Boys and girls
Choose different stories to read—variety of reading and age levels
Religious cults
Smart kids
Artistic kids
Wide readership—different genres—so pretty, more highbrow
Still entertaining without understanding all the levels
Rich material for discussion
Local gn creator—4 week program
Use comic life
Graphic novels
Matrix
Truman show
Ducktails
Fantasy
Little brother
Fire and hemlock
Golden compass, etc
Hugo cabret
unLondon
coralline
Pleasantville
Ricca—sex—safe and unsafe
Lauren—abortion
Leslie—biracial
Body image—laura
Teen depression—(body drama)
Regan—breaking up
Jill—punk rock
Sandy—military—joining
Emma—girl power
Nina—wonderlands
Dead pidgen—drug and alcohol abuse
Susan song—
God/existence
Claire—non-american—kids with parents who aren’t American
July 27, 2009
teens don't read or buy magazines unless they're lying around
boys--sports
unwilling to read outside topical comfort zone
no interest in GNs or manga
boys like ogden nash and billy collins
library bad==kids steal books
rant over how much no one uses school library in middle and high school
school librarires are great hang out spots but no one really uses them
hard for teens to think of library as a place to come to a program
if you don't like the staff; you're not going to use the library probably
brooklyn teen volunteers at mulberry st branch
jodi picoult
child called it
tuesdays with morrie
asmimov
girls like meg cabot and zombie books
zeroed in on Tyrell and Kendra
harry potter
hsm3 haters!
teens are better sequencers than us
deathnote:
would read:
manga kids
boys
goth kids
appearance based on pictures of demons
sci fi fantasy
would pair with:
artemis fowl
amulet of samarkand
"morally bankrupt" characters
bananafish
telenovela on youtube
little brother
charlies angels movies
battle royale
no choirboy
body drama:
loved it
very candid
no nonsense
show you the worse cases so you feel better about yourself
asprin masks!
no one is going to read this straight through
read the parts that are interesting to you
too muich emphasis on BMI
doctors still use BMI
how to deal with these feelings--too hetero-normative
--maybe to keep it more technical--overly technical?
would read with
gert garibaldis rants and raves
boy toy
wintergirls
vagina monologues
kids letters to judy
earth my butt and other big round things
fix
uglies
gossip girl
twlight
north of beautiful
are you there god it's me margaret
forever
nobody's perfect
body project
its complicated
alter ego
looks
frankie landau banks
freak show
grace after midnight
america's next top model:
TYRA
not all one body type
love the drama
like the real world
cast of supporting characters
everybody finds somebody they can relate to...or they find someone they can hate
what not to read
creazy
deals with lots of teen issues
August 3, 2009
freedom to be inrellectual
right to receive info
ist amendment
bill of rights
libraries allow access to info that's been published
NYPL allows open access to all info after age 12
advertise and promote
keep records private
erase record once they return the book
patriot act allows gov't officials to see library records
keep extra copies to give away instead of checking out
having a clear selection policy
collection development policy: legalese description for how you select and how you proceed when there is a challenge
cultivate relationships with local authorities to garner suppport
helps to have a form for people to challenge
important to read entire work
important to let people complain
families/parents afraid of their children
find a way to engage challengers in a conversation
Banned Books Week
more of a parenting issue than a library issue
you don't have to agree with everything you read or recommend
No Choirboy:
for teens who ask for true stories
fans of true crime
fascination with prison
reluctant readers
short, chunked, high interest
pictures
readalike:
green mile
dead man walking
monster
grace after midnight
Death Chamber
jack gantos hole in my life
luc sante
juvenile
Weegee
trials of daryl hunt
drown
hunger games
bloods and crips: made in america
in cold blood
little brother
prison break
oz
the wire
antique bakery
straight girls
obsessees of Japanese culture
foodees
lots of great details in the desserts
fans of boxing
readalike:
bananafish
vegan cupcakes take over teh world
hello cupcake
play with your food book
like water for chocolate
sunshine
at home at the end of the world
boy meets boy
teh waitress
chocolat
True to the Game:
complex main character--comes across as a shallow golddigger--but
all about plot
great for reluctant readers